St Scholastica High School - Scholastican Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE CHORAL CLUB EMILY JANE MOCKENHAUPT 0 F F IC E R s EMILY J. MOCKENHAUPT ........................ President JEAN MCDONNELL ........................ VicezPresident MARGARET ANDERSON .......................... Secretary The Choral Club, consisting of members of the senior high school, had its harmonious ranks swelled this year by veterans of the music appreciation class, who now spend their time appreciating the sound of their own voices instead of the works of the master composers. During Education week the Choral Club, under the able direction of Miss Berry, entertained our Superior, Reverend Mother Imelda with some very charming and tuneful SBIEC' tions, iiSnow Legend and iiOnward Grenadiers. Again on December eighth, the solemn occasion of the Reception of new members into the Sodality, the Choral Club added much to the beauty of the ceremonies by their renditions of the iiMissa Rosa Mystica by Carnevali. The Choral Club did its part in making the Commencement in. June one of the most impressive in past years. The pro! gram opened with the sweet strains of Unfold ye Portals,, and iiRepentanceii by a combination chorus of both Glee and Choral club members. Closing the beautiful service the MSaIVe Reginaii was presented, in which the choir gave joye ous praise to the Queen of Heaven who had brought such blessings and success in the past year. MARION MULLIGAN, ,31. SCHOLASTICAN1931 J. MC DONNELL M. ANDERSON

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IKKKXK i e I'I'f n1 K. w,, . h ' 4!!! CECELIA RAY BERRY Ambition for supreme attainment in Choral and Glee Club activities is laudable and will bear analysis. It would use every means possible to find the highest per sonal expression through the medium of the only universal languageesong. What are these means? Voices true as to pitch, daily rehearsals, devotion to ideals, a certain esprit de corps, a capable director. This is very simple and possible. Given these means, the most beautiful song literature would become the very bone and marrow of school culture and the world would not only clear the path to the institution harboring such a class, but would write, urging them to bring this art to entrance audiences both in their own country and abroad. To witness: St. Olafls glorious Choir, the famous Paulists, the amazing Prague Teachersi Chorus. How about a trip to Europe, girls? CECELIA RAY BERRY. SCHOLASTICAN 1931

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VlKlK , t 3'17, h,K L L: IXDEHNERT J JxQTBOYLE . A. NEVIUS I THE GLEE CLUB , i J , ROSEMARY RUDERSDORF, e ,1 0 F F 1c E R s .3 x ROSEMARY RUDERSDORF President , MABEL ANN NEVIUS ...................... Viochvesidem IRENE DEHNERT ............................... Sammy JOSEPHINE O BOYLE ........................... Treasurer TTGreat things have small beginningsW How true seems the old adage when we consider the way in which the Glee Club came into existence. One day, shortly after the organie zation of the junior high school, a member of the faculty walked past an assembly containing a group of girls from the freshman class. As she passed, suddenly there were voices raised in girlish laughter. The laughter seemed so melodious and belleh'ke in its soprano quality teven though the girls were breaking rules and creating a disturbancet that she der cided the junior high must have a glee Club. And so it was organized. With loving care Miss Berry, the directress, has turned those sweet sopranos from giggling merr riment to harmonious song. The younger members of the high schoool department, moreover, have made wonderful progress. The pupils of the junior high have contributed their part to the Wednesday assembly programs. Then at the June Commencement, they joined their voices to those of the senior high Choral Club in the beautiful TTUnfold, Ye Portalsf, and TEAve Maria? They presented also the two numbers Salve Regina, and TO Divine Redeemer? With this in spiring program the Junior Glee Club successfully closed the first year of its brief career at St. Scholastica. MARION MULLIGAN, ,31. Page sixty'four SCHOLASTICAN1931